After their marriage on August 25th, 1885, Laura and Almanzo Wilder moved into their bright new house on a Dakota homestead. In the four years that followed, they struggled to prove their claim to the land and to survive the destruction of their crops by freak storms. But there were joyous Christmas celebrations, twilight pony rides and best of all, their daughter Rose was born. Beginning where These Happy Golden Years ends, this story completes Mrs. Wilder’s chronicle of frontier life, with its hardships and adventures, sorrows and joys.